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2023

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2024

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Latest  events . . .

Are We Living in a Post-democratic Society?, Wolfson College, Oxford

Deepfakes and the Law, City, University of London: call for expressions of interest

Constitutional Communities, KU Leuven, Belgium: call for papers

There Be Dragons: The Post-Brexit Legal Landscape of Northern Ireland, online and UCL Faculty of Laws

Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law: Doctrines of Legal Insanity, Royal Institute of Philosophy, London

The Death Penalty: A colonial relic?, Gresham College, London

Incentivising Law, UCL, London

Launch of the Fairness Innovation Challenge, Royal Society, London

Scarman Lecture 2023: Policing and Sexual Violence, University of Leicester

CLP – The New Law on Sexual Assault and Rape in Germany, UCL Faculty of Laws

Walk: City Pubs – Gray’s Inn to Temple, Guildhall Library, London

Public Discourse on Children as Victims and Perpetrators of Violent Crime, Aston University, Birmingham

English Law and EU Law: Still two separate worlds?, Instituto Cervantes, London

Association of Law Teachers: Three events open to all, Bartolomé House, University of Sheffield

SLSA events and co-sponsored events 

Regulation & the Common Good, University of Sheffield: registration now open


2023


Autumn

Global Corporate Law Seminar Series: Technology and corporate law – in person and online: call for papers

Dates: tbc

Venues: in person and online

See announcement and website for further details. Closing date: 30 September 2023.


September

The Social History of Legal Responses to Infectious Disease

Date: 22 September 2023

Venue: Bentham House, University College London

See website for details.

Influencing Law Reform: Tips for effective engagement with the Law Commission

Date: 22 September 2023

Venue: online

This event is jointly organised by the Law Commission, Society of Legal Scholars, SLSA and Assocation of Law Teachers. See announcement for details.

RCSL Sociology of Constitutions Working Group Annual Meeting

Dates: 26–28 September 2023

Venue: Fermo, Italy

Theme: The People in Societal Constitutions: Politics, Semantics and Theories

See announcement for details. 

Scarman Lecture 2023: Policing and Sexual Violence

Date: 27 September 2023

Venue: University of Leicester

Speakers: Manjit Atwal QPM (Head of Violence Against Women and Girls Programme, College of Policing) and Jayne Butler (Chief Executive Officer, Rape Crisis England and Wales)

See website for details.

The Death Penalty: A colonial relic?

Date: 28 September 2023

Venue: Gresham College, London

Speaker: Professor Leslie Thomas KC

See website for details. Also available to watch live online.

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Public Discourse on Children as Victims and Perpetrators of Violent Crime

Date: 28 September 2023

Venue: Aston University, Birmingham

See website for details.

2023 COI congress: Just institutional approaches to conflict prevention and resolution

Dates: 28–29 September 2023

Venue: Utrecht University

See website for details.

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October

Poverty in Scotland, JRF webinar

Date: 2 October 2023

Venue: online from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation

See website for details and registration.

Incentivising Law

Date: 2 October 2023

Vene: UCL Faculty of Laws, London

Speaker: Dr Kara Woodbury-Smith, Durham Law School)

Chair: Professor Kevin Toh, UCL

See website for details.

‘Seeing like a cop’: Visuality and Coloniality in Spaces of Gendered Criminalisation

Date: 3 October 2023

Venue: Birkbeck, University of London, and online

Speaker: Dr Emma Russell, La Trobe University

Discussant: Dr Megan McElhone, Birkbeck

Chair: Dr Sarah Lamble, Birkbeck

See website for details.

Centre for Law and Social Justice Launch Webinar

Date: 4 October 2023

Venue: online 

See website for details.

Feeling Pain and Shame: Mapping the emotional grammar of banning ‘conversion therapy’

Date: 4 OCtober 2023

Venue: University of Sheffield

Speaker: Dr Senthorun Raj, Reader at the Manchester Metropolitan University 

Followed by drinks and refreshments. See website for details.

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Brain/Mind Interface: Clinical and Medicolegal Challenges

Date: 5 October 2023

Venue: Royal College of Physicians, London

See website for details.

SAFI Conference on Punishment

Dates: 5–7 October 2023

Venue: Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris

See website for details. 

JUSTICE Human Rights Conference 2023

Date: 6 October 2023

Venue: Linklaters, London 

See website for details.

Reimagining Equalities Law from the Grassroots

Date: 6 October 2023

Venue: University of Kent

See website for details.

International Access to Justice Forum 2023

Dates: 11–13 October 2023

Venue: University of California Irvine

Hosted by UCI Law’s Initiative for Inclusive Civil Justice and the Victoria Law Foundation. See announcement for details. 

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Legal Challenges of the Globalised World: should the law protect and realise rights?

Date: 12 October 2023

Venue: online organised by Dnipro Humanitarian University, St Mary’s University and the University of Westminster

See announcement for details.

Judicial Review Trends and Forecasts 2023: Power and the law – Public Law Project Annual Conference

Date: 12 October 2023

Venue: Herbert Smith, London

See website for details.

Issues in Criminal Justice Lecture – Radical transparency: reforming parole to increase public confidence

Date: 12 October 2023

Venue: Law Society, London

Speaker: Professor Stephen Shute, Professor of Criminal Law & Criminal Justice

See website for details.

130 Years of Law: Including keynote lecture by Sir Stephen Cobb

Date: 12 October 2023

Venue: University of Liverpool

See website for details.

English Law and EU Law: Still two separate worlds?

Date: 13 October 2023

Venue: Instituto Cervantes, London

See website for details.

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Law and Things: Juridical and bureaucratic techniques in Latin America

Dates: 16 October–8 November 2023

Venue: online seminar series

Organised by Dr Ignacio Riquel and Dr Javiera Araya. See website for details. Note that conference materials are currently only available in Spanish.

The Beatles and the Law – Mr Justice Foxton

Date: 18 October 2023

Venue: University of Liverpool

See website for details.

 Regulation & the Common Good: registration now open

Date: 18 October 2023

Venue: University of Sheffield

See website for details of call and speakers. This event is supported by the SLSA through our one-day conference programme. 

Are We Living in a Post-democratic Society?

Date: 18 October 2023

Venue: Wolfson College, Oxford

Speaker: Professor Colin Crouch

See announcement for details of this Oxford Law in Societies Cluster event.

There Be Dragons: The Post-Brexit Legal Landscape of Northern Ireland

Date: 18 October 2023

Venue: online and UCL Faculty of Laws

Speaker: Professor Christopher McCrudden, Profelssor of Human Rights and Equality Law, Queen’s University Belfast; William W Cook Global Professor of Law, University of Michigan Law School

See website for details.

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Family Law Breakfast: Litigation lending levelled? Funding in a post Simon v Simon world

Date: 19 October 2023

Venue: Charles Russell Speechlys, 5 Fleet Place, London

Keynote speaker: Sir Andrew McFarlane

See website and announcement for details.

Launch of the Fairness Innovation Challenge

Date: 19 October 2023

Venue: Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London

See website for details.

Argumentation 2023

Date: 20 October 2023

Venue: Masaryk University, Brno, Czechia

Theme: Performativity in law

See announcement and website for for details. 

PAST Records Workshop – Modern Legal Records

Date: 26 October 2023

Venue: National Archives, Richmond

See website for details.

Socio-Legal Journals Global South Writing Workshops 2023–2025: Workshop 1 

Dates: 26–27 October 2023

Venues: Kabarak Law School, Kenya, Ghana Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, Accra, and online 

See poster and announcement for full details.

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November

CLP – The New Law on Sexual Assault and Rape in Germany

Date: 2 November 2023

Venue: UCL Faculty of Laws

Speaker: Professor Dr Tatjana Hörnle, Max Planck Institute

See website for details.

Association of Law Teachers: Three events open to all

Date: 2 November 2023

Venue: Bartolomé House (Moot Court), School of Law, University of Sheffield

The three events are:

  • Workshop on the QAA Subject Benchmark Statement for Law
  • Trail of Legal Heroism: Official Launch
  • The Association of Law Teachers Annual Lord Upjohn Lecture 2023

See website for details. All events are free.

AHRC Being Human Festival 2023: call for applications

Dates: 9–18 November 2023

Venues: UK-wide

See website for details. Closing dates vary. 

Sexual Autonomy, Protection and Identity in Care Settings

Date: 10 November 2023

Venue: Northumbria Law School (with some online sessions)

See announcement for details. 

Walk: City Pubs – Gray’s Inn to Temple

Date: 10 November 2023

Venue: meet in Chancery Lane Station.

Organised by the Guildhall Library, London. See website for details.

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The Meaning of Brexit and the Future of the Union

Date: 14 November 2023

Venue: Canada Room and Council Chamber, Queen's University Belfast

Speaker: Professor David Reynolds FBA

See website for details of this British Academy event.

Diversity, Dilemmas and Discoveries: Legal histories, local histories online from the Open University: call for papers

Date: 16 November 2023

Venue: online from the Open University Law School Legal Histories research cluster

See website for details. Call closes: 12 October 2023.

16th Melbourne Doctoral Forum on Legal Theory

Date: 21–22 November 2023

Venue: Melbourne Law School, Australia

Theme: Translation, Transformation and Transgression

See announcement for details. 

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December

Aristotle (and Aristotelianism) on Justice and (In)equality: Contemporary projections – call for papers

Dates: 6–7 December 2023

Venue: Coimbra, Portugal

See website for details. Call closes: 25 September 2023.

LSAANZ Conference 2023: call for papers extended to 8 September 2023

Dates: 6–8 December 2023

Venue: University of Technology, Sydney

Theme: Voice, Resistance, and Repair: Law and living together

See website for details. 

4th All India Legal History Congress: call for papers

Dates: 6–8 December 2023

Venue: School of Law and Legal Studies, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India

See website for details. Closing date: 20 September 2023.

Mothers, Harm and the Northern Ireland Conflict

Date: 11 December 2023

Venue: Moot Court, Main Site Tower, Queen's University Belfast

See website for details.

White Collar Crime – Challenges and solutions: call for papers

Date: 12 December 2023

Venue: online, funded by the Society of Legal Scholars.

See announcement for details. Closing date: 9 October 2023.

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2023 Asian Law & Society Association Annual Meeting

Dates: 15–16 December 2023 – Junior Scholars' Workshop: 14 December 2023.

Venue: Sunway University, Malaysia

See website for details. 

Law & Society in South Asia (LASSA) Workshop

Dates: 15–17 December 2023

Venue: Lahore, Pakistan

See website for details.  

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2024


January

The Cultural Techniques of Law

Dates: 17–19 January 2024

Venue: University of Helsinki, Finland

See website for details. 

Mental Disorder and the Criminal Law: Doctrines of Legal Insanity

Date: 18 January 2024

Venue: Swedenborg Hall, Royal Institute of Philosopy, London

Speaker: Claire Hogg, UCL

See website for details.

February

Justice, Care, Responsibility: Rethinking the family from a legal and philosophical perspective: call for papers from junior researchers 

Dates: 8–9 February 2024

Venue: Geneva, Switzerland

See website for details. Call closes 15 October 2023.

Constitutional Communities: call for papers

Dates: 8–9 February 2024

Venue: KU Leuven, Belgium

See website for details. Closing date: 25 October 2023.


March

Annual Workshop on the Vienna School of Jurisprudence and the Pure Theory of Law: call for papers

Dates: 4–5 March 2023

Venue: Black Forest, nr Freiburg, Germany

See announcement for details. Closing date: 31 October 2023.

Social History of Civil Justice, 19–21st Centuries: call for papers

Dates: 7–8 March 2023

Venue: University of Vienna, Germany

See announcement for details. Call closes: 31 October 2023.


May

Deepfakes and the Law: call for expressions of interest

Date: 20 May 2023

Venue: City, University of London, Northampton Square Campus

See announcement for details. Closing date: 13 November 2023.


June

Law and Society Association Annual Meeting 2024: call for papers

Date: 6–9 June 2024

Venue: Hyatt Regency Denver, Colorado Convention Center, Denver, Colorado, USA

Theme: 'Unsettling Territories: Tradition and Revolution in Law and Society'

See website for details. Call closes: 24 October 2023.

WG Hart Workshop 2024: 'Historicising jurisprudence: person, community, form', call for papers

Dates: 26–27 July 2024

Venue: Institute for Advanced Legal Studies, London

See announcement for details. Closing date: 4 December 2023.


July

The Law and Humanities Roundtable 2024: call for papers

Date: July 2024 (tbc)

Venue: University of Southampton

See announcement for details. Closing date: 2 January 2024.

IVR Congress 2024, Seoul, Republic of Korea: special workshop and individual paper proposals

Date: 7–12 July 2024

Venue: Seoul, Republic of Korea

Theme: The Rule of Law, Justice and the Future of Democracy

See website for details. Call closes: 31 January 2024.


 September

Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) Conference 2024

Dates: 3–6 September 2024

Venue: Bangor University, North Wales

See announcement for details.

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